Where there are lawmakers, there will be lobbyists. That is just a fact of legislative life. But what shouldn’t be a fact is not knowing how lobbyists are spending millions of dollars to influence our state legislators. Unfortunately, according to a new survey from the Sunlight Foundation, a Washington-based public interest watchdog group, Florida […]
New Report Ranks All Fifty States on Government Spending Transparency – U.S. PIRG
Government spending transparency is improving, but many states still lag far behind, according to “Following the Money 2015: How the 50 States Rate in Providing Online Access to Government Spending Data,” the sixth annual report of its kind by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund. Some states have improved their spending transparency web […]
Little Sunlight as Obama Raises Super Pac Dollars – Associated Press
For years President Barack Obama railed against the surge of unlimited spending flowing into American political campaigns, arguing that average voters were being shut out of a secretive system that lets special interests bankroll elections. Now as Obama enthusiastically raises money for Democratic super PACs, he’s embracing some of the same secretive elements of that […]
